Irvine's Good Shepherd Lutheran Church will help people on a local and global scale during its 6th annual Faith-in-Action Sunday, coming up Oct. 7 at its Irvine campus.

Congregation members are encouraged to participate in the church's service project day which begins after the parish's 8 and 9:30 a.m. services.

They'll be able to choose from among 10 global and local projects.

The efforts range from serving meals at a Salvation Army homeless ministry, to sewing cloth feminine hygiene items for Days for Girls, to sewing sand scarves for soldiers serving overseas for Soldier's Angels.

Pastor Ryan Warne-McGraw, the church's pastor of worship and outreach, will be spending his time on Sunday praying for volunteers and putting together AIDS caregiver kits for World Vision, an international organization that works to fight child poverty, he said.

Warne-McGraw encourages all members of Good Shepherd Lutheran to stay after the services to help serve others.

"I would encourage people to volunteer because Jesus set a great example of serving others and it's a way for us to be the hands of Jesus to our local community and to the world," he said. "It's a great way for people to serve in our church and all of our projects really affect our community and the world, so it's a great way to give back."

More than 300 congregation members have signed up for the Faith-in-Action Sunday, but church officials are anticipating about 450 to donate their time, as has been standard in the event's six-year history.

Terry Fee, a parishioner at Good Shepherd Lutheran and an outreach coach for the church's ministry outreach, has been involved with organizing and participating in the event for six years.

She too will be working at assembling kits in an assembly line fashion for World Vision.

She said that she is excited to help with sending 350 kits with hopeful personal notes to Africa.

"I personally have been so blessed that I just want to share with others and our church wants to share what we have with the rest of the world," Fee said.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is at 4800 Irvine Center Drive in Irvine.

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